Why did the servants of the Dutch West India Company try to force people on the Ivory Coast to buy certain amount of Dutch goods?
-they wanted to put a complete stop to the African trade but it didn’t work. Dutch ruled that each Axim Canoe-man going to Cape Lahou should carry Dutch goods worth at least four ounces of gold. Because it would eventually convert a purely inter-African exchange into a European-African trade.
When Europeans became middle men in local trade networks, they did so mainly to make it easier to extract captives, which lessened their importance to the European Slave Trade.
“There is a type of false integration which camouflage for dependence”
-This was disguised as free trade in the formally colonized sections of the world.
15th century onward false integration acted as interlocking African economics over long distances. although they thought the interlock of African economies were happening, they were actually secretly passing human captives and ivory.
Joka Oyefeso 